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Hesse-Dwmstadt. Government, 337 ; area and popula- 

 tion, 337 ; budget, 337 ; public debt, 337. ,.. 



HOLMAN, WILLIAM S. Representative from Indiana, 120 ; 

 on counting the vote of Georgia for President, 172. 



HOWARD, JACOB M. Senator from Michigan, 120; on 

 the fifteenth amendment, 143, 145, 146, 155-157, 161, 

 164. 



HOWE, TIMOTHY O. Senator from Wisconsin, 148 ; on 

 the fifteenth amendment, 148, 158. 



HUBEB, VICTOR AIME. Birth, 337 ; death, 337 ; pursuits, 

 337; historical and critical works, 337. 



Hungary. Government, 338; conference of the non- 

 Magyar nationalities, 338 ; programme agreed upon, 

 338 ; conference of the Rumanians, 338 ; address of the 

 Emperor Francis Joseph on opening the Hungarian 

 Diet, 338 ; close of the Hungarian Diet speech from 

 the throne, 339 ; obstructions at the mouth of the 

 Danube, 339. 



HUKT, JAMES. Birth, 340 ; death, 340 ; pursuits, 340. 



Hydrogenium. Elongation and retraction of the palla- 

 dium wire experiments of Mr. Graham, 340 ; occlu- 

 sion of hydrogen by palladium alloys, 341 ; palladium, 

 gold, and hydrogenium, 341 ; palladium, silver, and 

 hydrogenium, 341 ; palladium, nickel, and hydrogeni- 

 um, 341 ; density of hydrogenium, 341. 



Elinois. Meeting of the Legislature, 342 ; legislation of 

 the session, 342 ; ratification of the fifteenth amend- 

 ment, 342 ; passage of the canal and river improve- 

 ment bill, 342; law for the exclusion of diseased 

 cattle from the State, 342; the law held to be uncon- 

 stitutional by the Circuit Court, 342 ; session of the 

 Legislature closed, 343 ; report of the commissioners 

 on the new State-house, 343 ; appropriations of the 

 Legislature, 343; railroad legislation, 343; Insane 

 Asylum, 344 ; meeting of the State Board of Charities, 

 344; improved system for the treatment of the in- 

 sane, 344; institution for the education of feeble- 

 minded children, 344 ; Southern Illinois Normal Uni- 

 versity, 344 ; financial condition of the State, 344 ; 

 valuation of railroad property, 345 ; exhibit of per- 

 sonal property, 345; county, town, and city debts, 

 345 ; increase of taxation, 345 ; report of the treasurer 

 showing the condition of the treasury, 345 ; cultivated 

 land, 346 ; soil, 346 ; school statistics, 346 ; remarks of 

 Peter Cartwright at the Methodist Conference, 346 ; 

 dairies, 346; milk statistics, 347; judicial decision 

 that bank capital must be assessed at its par value, 

 347 ; decision concerning the rights of passengers on 

 railroad trains, 347 ; calling of a constitutional con- 

 vention, 347 ; popular vote thereon, 347 ; the members 

 elected, 348; constitutional conventions heretofore 

 held, 348 ; meeting and organization of the conven- 

 tion, 348 ; resolutions adopted, 348 ; earnings of the 

 Illinois Central Railroad, 348 ; tax paid by same, 348 ; 

 real and personal property of the State for a series of 

 years, 348 ; State debt, 348 ; questions to come before 

 the convention, 349. 



Immigration, Unusually large immigration to the United 

 States in 1869, 349 ; immigration to the United States 

 for a series of years. 349 ; table of nationalities and 

 occupations of immigrants for 1869, 349 ; Commis- 

 sioners of Emigration in New York, 349; work of the 

 Labor Exchange for 1868 and '69, 350 ; immigration on 

 the Pacific coast, 350 ; nationalities and destination 

 of immigrants arriving at the port of New York dur- 

 ing 1868 and 1869, 350 ; same statistics for each year 



since 1847, 351 ; avowed destination of passengers 

 landed at Castle Garden since 1854, 352 ; remarkable 

 changes in the tide of European emigration and the 

 causes thereof, 352 ; causes in the United States af- 

 fecting the tide of European emigration, 353 ; occu- 

 pations of passengers arrived in the United States 

 since 1856, 353 ; eftect of immigration on the popula- 

 tion of the United States, 354; amount of money 

 brought by each immigrant, 354 ; the question of im- 

 migration in the Southern States, 354. 



India. Area and population, 354 ; revenue, 354 ; expen- 

 ditures, 354 ; debt, 354 ; imports and exports, 35i ; 

 remarkable progress iu the Punjab, 354 ; revenue, 354 ; 

 extent of the India trade, 355 ; the Urdu and the 

 Hindi languages, 355 ; religious societies, 355 ; Brahma 

 Club, 355 ; philanthropic societies, 356 ; spiritual prog- 

 ress among Hindoo and Moslem, 356. 



Indiana. Meeting of the Legislature, 356 ; election of 

 United States Senator, 356; joint resolutions con- 

 cerning the tenure-of-office law and coin contracts 

 presented to Congress, 356; fifteenth amendment 

 before the Legislature, 356 ; strategy of Democratic 

 members to prevent its ratification, 357 ; disruption of 

 the Legislature, 357; special session convened by order 

 of the Governor, 357; vote on the fifteenth amendment, 

 357 ; dispute as to the validity of the ratification, 357 ; 

 decision of the Supreme Court sustaining the validity 

 of the specific appropriation bill, 357 ; modification of 

 the election laws, 357 ; decision of the Supreme Court 

 concerning the right of a State to tax national-bank 

 notes, 357 ; condition of the treasury, 358 ; mineral 

 resources, 358 ; report of the commissioners appoint- 

 ed to settle the State war claims against the General 

 Government, 359 ; resolutions of the Woman's State 

 Suffrage Convention, 359. 



Iowa. Area and population, 360 ; character of the land, 

 360 ; shipments of stock and grain, 360 ; imports, 360 ; 

 railroads, 360 ; school statistics, 360 ; condition of the 

 treasury, 360 ; value and taxation of property, 361 ; 

 convention for the improvement of water communi- 

 cation between the Mississippi River and the lakes, 

 361 ; resolutions, 361 ; results of the geological survey, 

 381 ; State Library, 361 ; public-land grants, 362 ; Dem- 

 ocratic Convention, 362 ; resolutions, 362 ; Republican 

 Convention, 362 ; resolutions, 362 ; result of the elec- 

 tion, 362. 



Italy. Government, 362 ; area and population, 362 ; pub- 

 lic debt, 363 ; war- vessels, 363 ; commerce, 363 ; agi- 

 tation of the financial question, 363; measures pro- 

 posed by the finance minister, 363 ; opposition to the 

 grist-tax, 363 ; resignation of the ministers, 363 ; new 

 ministry formed, 363 ; operation of the grist-tax, 363 ; 

 new ministerial crisis, 363 ; Lanzas ministry, 363 ; 

 financial plans, 364 ; agitation in regard to taxes, 364 ; 

 the King, 364 ; scheme for a reorganization of the 

 army, 364 ; Mont Cenis Tunnel, 364. 



JAHST, OTHO. Birth, 364; death, 364; pursuits, 364; works, 

 364. 



Japan. Area and population, 365 ; conflict between the 

 Mikado and Tycoon, 365 ; foreign powers represented 

 in Japan, 365; commerce and shipping, 365; pro- 

 visional government formed on the island of Yesso by 

 supporters of the Tycoon, 365 ; Parliament assembled 

 at Yeddo by order of the Mikado, 365 ; message of the 

 Emperor, 365 ; scheme for the rules and regulations 

 of the Parliament, 365 ; the capital of Yesso attacked 

 by the Mikado's forces, 366; questions from the 



